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college basketball stories: 54 news summaries

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CBS Bounces Packer From NCAA Team

After 34 years of Final Fours, controversial broadcaster is out

Jul 14, 08 11:57 AM CDT
(Newser) - For the first time in 34 years, Billy Packer won’t be calling the Final Four, the Miami Herald reports. CBS won’t renew the 68-year-old’s year-to-year contract, an exec confirmed, but will replace Packer with veteran announcer Clark Kellogg. Packer has been a controversy magnet, most famously for... More »

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 Ariz. Coach Swears Off
 1-Year Wonders 

Olson calls NBA rule "farce," plans to push for changes benefiting college basketball

Jul 11, 08 2:55 PM CDT
(Newser) - Lute Olson is sick of an NBA rule that results in top basketball prospects spending just one year in college, the Los Angeles Times reports, and says he'll no longer recruit such players for his University of Arizona program. Olson, who's seen the rule cost Arizona two top players this... More »

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OPINION

Prospect's European Exile Ruffles Feathers

Some fault NBA age rule in driving Jennings abroad; others rip teen

Jul 10, 08 4:18 PM CDT
(Newser) - The decision by a top high school basketball prospect to ditch his commitment to college and play professionally in Europe—thus thumbing his nose at the NBA, which bars players under 19—has observers up in arms, the Wall Street Journal's Daily Fix blog notes. Camps appear split into those... More »

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Finding Meaning in the Death
of Len Bias

Cocaine killed the athlete 22 years ago, but the impact lingers

Jun 26, 08 2:45 PM CDT
(Newser) - Twenty-two years ago, Celtics legend Larry Bird called the sudden death of new Boston draftee Len Bias "one of the the cruelest things I've ever heard." The legacy of the Maryland basketball great, whose NBA career ended with cocaine use just two days after it began, retains its... More »

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OJ Mayo, Agent
Calvin Andrews Cut Ties

Relationship ends amid allegations of NCAA policy abuse

May 23, 08 1:50 AM CDT
(Newser) - Former USC guard OJ Mayo has cut ties with agent Calvin Andrews. The decision comes less than two weeks after allegations he violated NCAA rules by accepting cash donations while in high school and college. "Due to the overwhelming intensity of recent allegations regarding the recruitment of OJ Mayo,... More »

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Can Basketball Keep Agents Out of High School?

Mayo scandal shocks few, and penalties remain slight

May 18, 08 12:28 PM CDT
(Newser) - The NBA can't stop agents from scurrying around high school and college basketball these days, offering illegal gifts to sign young players. Although the players are getting younger—more go pro right out of high school—punishments for players and agents alike remain slight, the New York Times reports. More »

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 USC's Mayo
 Accused of Taking Gifts 

College faces sanctions if star accepted illegal benefits from future agent

May 12, 08 9:56 AM CDT
(Newser) - USC star OJ Mayo received tens of thousands of dollars from the agency that would eventually represent him, a violation of NCAA rules, according to former friend Louis Johnson. The money was allegedly funneled through one Rodney Guillory, who lavished on Mayo just a fraction of what the agency gave... More »

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NCAA Penalizes Teams for Classroom Performance

Programs with poor graduation rates face sanctions

May 6, 08 5:02 PM CDT
(Newser) - The NCAA has handed out sanctions to more than 200 college teams for poor academic performance, USA Today reports. More than a third of the 329 Division I schools had teams with subpar Academic Progress Rates, which means their players' graduation rate was lower than 60%. Twenty-six teams deemed chronic... More »

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Stanford Hires Duke's Dawkins as Coach

Longtime Blue Devils assistant takes over after Johnson leaves

Apr 26, 08 5:56 PM CDT
(Newser) - Johnny Dawkins, a longtime assistant coach at Duke, has been hired as Stanford's new men's basketball coach. Dawkins replaces Pac-10 Coach of the Year Trent Johnson, who left for LSU earlier this month, two people close to the situation said today. Both people requested anonymity because Stanford had not made... More »

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Beasley Headed to NBA

Kansas State freshman may be No. 1 overall pick after college rebounding title

Apr 14, 08 9:25 PM CDT
(Newser) - After putting together one of the best freshman seasons ever, Michael Beasley is headed to the NBA. Kansas State's All-American freshman announced Monday that he will skip his final three seasons to enter the June 26 NBA draft, where he could be the No. 1 overall pick. "It's time... More »

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march madness

100,000 at Parade for KU

Fans implore NBA prospects to return during largest fete in Lawrence history

Apr 13, 08 9:37 PM CDT
(Newser) - In possibly the biggest celebration in the city's history, a crowd estimated at more than 100,000 lined Lawrence's streets Sunday to honor the national basketball champion Kansas Jayhawks. Fans from as far away as Colorado and Minnesota, some in trees and on rooftops, came to get a glimpse of... More »

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March Madness

 The Blues Ring Out in Memphis 

The Tigers had only just begun to believe they could make it

Apr 8, 08 12:36 PM CDT
(Newser) - Memphis coach John Calipari had told his team's fans to "Expect good things to happen," and they did. Chris Douglas-Roberts and Derrick Rose knew their Tigers had the chance to snatch the NCAA crown away from Kansas, and for a while it looked like they would. Instead, the... More »

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MARCH MADNESS

 Rock, Chalk
 Jayhawks Are Champs

Kansas wins after Memphis is foul from the line

Apr 8, 08 12:00 AM CDT
(Newser) - Mario Chalmers hit a 3-pointer with 2.1 seconds left in regulation to push the game into overtime and the Jayhawk defense shut down Memphis throughout the extra period to clinch the NCAA men's basketball championship, 75-68. "We got the ball in our most clutch player's hands, and he... More »

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The Man Behind the Moment

Songwriter Barrett penned NCAA finals theme song to impress a waitress

Apr 7, 08 9:59 PM CDT
(Newser) - Luther Vandross's performance of "One Shining Moment" is played at the end of the NCAA finals to make viewers teary-eyed, and the world has songwriter David Barrett to thank, reports the Fayetteville Observer. Barrett wrote the song after attempting to win over a waitress by discussing the greatness... More »

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